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Second Moscow, the SL version of the Russian capital, will be celebrating its inauguration on 1 September. This is excellent news for SurReal Quests as there will be yet another destination for students to visit, socialize, research and podcast about.

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I have been working on a way to take advantage of the unique benefits of Second Life as an educational environment while maintaining the best of what both real life education and education 2.0 have to offer. The resulting approach is a task-based “SurReal” quest that draws on Second Life, web 2.0 tools and conventional use of the internet.

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Hoy he comprado un libro chileno sobre la educación2.0 y la educación tradicional. Se llama “Generación.net: Choque cultural en la sala de clases” y es escrito por Andrés Guiloff y Daniel Farcas. Tengo muchas ganas de realmente empezar el libro y escribir aquí unos pensamientos. Por el momento les dejo con un video YouTube sobre el lanzamiento del libro.

Google Docs (essentially word and excel presented as a wiki) are an excellent tool for working with students on their compositions. I was doing this yesterday with one of my students and we were able to edit the same document at the same time. Admittedly there are times when there is a conflict of who is editing, but if you are discussing what you are doing (which given that it is a classroom situation, is the most probable way to work), then it goes smoothly.

In the screenshot below I am about to highlight in yellow the text “Take good shoes because Berlin…”

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We all have to start somewhere, and this is the first post of the new blog on the first day of August.

Graham Davies

Today I met with Graham Davies (EUROCALL and ICT4LT), who was the Director of TVU School of Languages when I was studying German and Russian there. We met in Second Life, of course, and I’m including a picture of the two of us chatting on EduNation island (I have the soda).

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